If anything we may gain from the orphan works clause. The BJP is running a campaign against this as it thinks that photos without metatags will be stolen.

What we could have is images that were once PD becoming copyright violations, minor issue but we'd have to delete them The other is under due dilligence we could have request for checkuser information to identify the IP of the uploader so that a person(corporate) wanting to take ownership of a photograph, atm we cant supply such information if we give a standard rejection of we are unable to assist in identfying the uploader we would be closing that line of investigation and contributing to the loss of a PD image. On 19 March 2010 01:10, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Caroline Ford <caroline.ford.work(a)googlemail.com> wrote: running a will be I don't think there will be much gain for Commons - the amount of research that is required is probably too much for volunteers to do on a one-by-one base, and where the research has been done by others, the copyright will fall to them rather than reverting to the public domain. -- André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l -- GN. http://gnangarra.redbubble.com/ #avg_ls_inline_popup { position:absolute; z-index:9999; padding: 0px 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 240px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; text- align: left; line-height: 13px;} _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l